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I Was Violated Too

“I was violated too. My daughter was violated when we went there with strip searches and stuff like that, with abusive talk. It was just so shocking.” Anna Pastoressa

Narrators discuss the family and visitation on Rikers Island. This includes accounts of family who have visited and the trauma associated with the visitation process, which is very long, and the emotional effects of being visited and facing the impact that one’s incarceration has on loved ones.

March 26, 2021
“I Was Violated Too,” Rikers Public Memory Project Archive, accessed October 17, 2026, http://archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/139.